Live Messenger doesn't start.

[Sharky.]

Well, it does, but not completely.

Regardless of how I start WLM the msnmsgr.exe process will pop up in Task Manager (generally at about 60 CPU and 15,000K mem usage - ouch), but the application itself won't actually show up anywhere.

The notification tray icon doesn't appear, and there's no sign that the program's trying to start. About the only indication I get that I've *started* WLM is that the mouse gets all laggy. (sometimes the whole computer will crash if I do something as trivial as opening shortcut properties while the process is still active...)

I've done some searching with Google, and it seems that resetting routers solves this problem.

I'm a 56k user, and last I checked dial-up modems aren't routers.

I repaired the install all of half an hour ago, but no luck. I've managed to get the program to start properly maybe three times in the past two weeks - I tried five times today, every attempt resulted in the computer crashing.

Details:
WLM version 8.5.1302.1018
1.3 GHz Athlon
128MB RAM (page filing set to 2GB max to partially overcome this)
Win XP SP2 version 5.1


Help?

 

[DKX]

I have the same problem with MSN, Yahoo and Myspace IM. I can't get it figured out but i got a program called "Pidgin" that allows you to use any chat program like MSN etc.. its free to download. Link :http://lifehacker.com/software/down...tant+messaging-client-windowslinux-257028.php

Hope it helped

 

[nick09]

I have the same problem with MSN, Yahoo and Myspace IM. I can't get it figured out but i got a program called "Pidgin" that allows you to use any chat program like MSN etc.. its free to download. Link :http://lifehacker.com/software/down...tant+messaging-client-windowslinux-257028.php

Hope it helped

Yeah I recommend Pidgin as its allows different messagers like yahoo, AIM, MSN, and you can even do some IRC on it!👍

 

[G.T]

I've come across issues like this before, but not your particular one, unfortunetely.

My brother's MSN sometimes wouldn't load at all (needed a reboot) or it would randomly freeze after a minute of using it. I got him to use Web Messenger for a while or use Pidgen, and after a while he used the full MSN again and it didn't have any problems. It fixed itself, which is very odd.

 

[Eric.]

If it were my computer I wouldn't even bother tracking down the problem. Pidgin FTW!

 

[Perfect Balance]

Did you try just completely removing the program and downloading a new file off the internet?


Or just use something like Trillian.